Ingredients:


• 2 lbs. fillet of Sole
• 1 tsp. chopped green onions
• 1 ½ cups soft bread crumbs
• 1 egg well beaten
• 2 tbsp butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup condensed cream of asparagus soup
• 8 mushroom caps

Preparation:


1. Mix together onions and crumbs. Add egg and 1 tbsp melted margarine. Spread over each fish fillet and roll up, fasten with a toothpick and place on a square of foil which has been greased. Repeat this process for each fillet.
2. Spoon asparagus soup over each fillet. Top with mushroom and dot with margarine. Bake at 400 degrees on baking sheet for 20-30 minutes.
3. Remove from oven and serve once cool enough to eat.

This was a story that took place back in 2003 and it involved one of our sales people “crying wolf.” If you know Kurt Nevdal, you know very well that he is a prankster by nature. Kurt often calls from the bay or ocean while on a demo and says “I’m floating in the ocean, send help!” After calling sea tow a couple of times I came to the conclusion to simply not answer his call when he was out on one of his so called “demos,” or when he was out running a boat out for a customer. One spring day, in May, Kurt took out a brand new, special order, 2600 Striper with a 250hp Fitch engine which had already been sold to a customer in California. As some of you may remember, there were a few minor problems with these larger Fitch engines. Problems that one would never want to experience while out on the water.

Right on schedule, I received a call from Kurt about an hour later. Of course my natural reaction was to hit the ignore button on my phone, and that is exactly what I did. I received another call from Kurt about twenty seconds later, and again, chose to ignore the call. He was not able to contact me, so he immediately dialed our work phone and exclaimed, “HELP!! Put Scott on the line right now!” As I answer the phone Kurt says ,“Send help, boats on fire! I’m serious!!” Of course, I just laughed and again hung up the phone.

After about an hour with no phone call back I decided I had better go down to the boat ramp and take a look. I wanted to make sure everything was ok with both Kurt and the Brand new Striper. As I was driving down to the ramp, here he was, right there in front of me. Kurt had called the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue him in his desperate time of need. I immediately received the finger from Kurt, which led me to double over with laughter. As I approached the boat, I noticed that the whole back of the brand new striper was torched with black smoke. Though I could not contain my laughter at that moment, I soon realized that this was in fact not that funny of a situation. This was a sold boat and the customer was on the way from California to pick up this very boat, which he had special ordered from Seaswirl. We had likely just lost an $80,000 sale!

This has to be one of the funniest situations that I have ever encountered. Kurt was fuming mad at me for ignoring his call for help, and I was still laughing so hard that my stomach was beginning to hurt. After about an hour of working with my detail crew to try and get all the black soot off the boat, the customer pulls into the lot and Kurt makes a run for the border! I start to walk out with the customer to look over their new boat and said, “Well the boat looks great and performs great, but we have one small problem. I think they shipped us the wrong motor!” This motor was so black from the fire, that it did not even resemble an Evinrude anymore. I said, “I think it’s a Mercury,” I exclaimed. We discussed the situation with the customer and we both got a good laugh. In the end we were glad that this happened to a salesperson that knew how to handle the situation, and not the customer out on his maiden voyage.

The customers were incredibly cool about the whole situation. We were able to install a new motor and ship the boat to them in California. Since that faithful day we have not received a false cry for help from Kurt, or any of our staff. Kurt, had truly learned his lesson, never cry wolf where a potential life threatening situation could occur.

You are a Real Bass Fisherman if...


1. You have a power worm dangling from your rear view mirror because you think it makes a good air freshener.
2. Your wedding party had to tie tin cans to the back of your bass boat.
3. You call your boat "sweetheart" and your wife "skeeter".
4. Your local tackle shop has your credit card number on file.
5. You keep a flippin stick by your favorite chair to change the TV channels with.
6. You name your black lab "Mercury" and your cat "Evinrude".
7. Bass Pro Shop has a private line just for you.
8. You have your name painted on a parking space at the launch ramp.
9. You have a photo of your 10 lb. bass on your desk at work instead of your family.
10. You consider viennies and crackers a complete meal.
11. You think MEGABYTES means a great day fishing.
12. You send your kid off to the first day of school with his shoes tied in a palomar knot.
13. You think there are four seasons--Pre-spawn, Spawn, Post Spawn and Hunting.
14. Your $30,000 bass boat's trailer needs new tires so you just "borrow" the ones off your house.
15. You trade your wife's van for a smaller vehicle so your bass boat will fit in the garage.
16. Your kids know it's Saturday---Because the boats gone,